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Friday, December 3, 2004

Honduras Explosives Raid Tied To Adnan El-Shukrijumah?

By J.M. Berger

INTELWIRE.com

Officials in Honduras have seized a Canadian-owned ship carrying 900 tons of explosives, according to the Associated Press.

Loaded with illegally undeclared explosives, the owner of the MV Abdul Rahman was identified as Hassan Bachacha of Canada. The captain of the boat, an Egyptian, the Sudanese first officer and the captain have all been charged by Honduran authorities.

The U.S. has evinced strong interest in the explosives-laden boat, including sending experts to examine the ship.

All this activity, combined with the congruence of factors listed above, suggests that the incident may be connected to Shukrijumah.

If the ship is indeed tied to the Shukrijumah network, its capture could be very good news for U.S. investigators, who have been urgently seeking the Saudi-born operative for years. The story bears watching over the next few weeks.

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ISIS: THE STATE
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Jessica Stern and J.M. Berger co-author the forthcoming book, "ISIS: The State of Terror," from Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins. The book, which will debut in early 2015, will examine the rise of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, its potential fall, how it is transforming the nature of extremist movements, and how we should evaluate the threat it presents. Jessica Stern is a Harvard lecturer on terrorism and the author of the seminal text Terror in the Name of God: Why Religious Militants Kill. J.M. Berger is author of the definitive book on American jihadists, Jihad Joe: Americans Who Go to War in the Name of Islam, a frequent contributor to Foreign Policy, and editor of Intelwire.com.